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I created and used some shortcodes including such as (for example)

[venue]The Sly Fox Hotel[/venue]
[event]TECHnique[/event]
[artist]Biz[/artist]

in a post (where there were quite a few short codes used, and things appeared to be fine.

This evening I created some new short codes (using the same short code handler function used for artist, venue, etc) and added a few more uses in the same post, and *blink* the content disappears (from the output, not from the source). I thought I might have created some unmatching entries, and spent ages trying to find the mistake(s), to no avail – the answer seemed to lie in the number of shortcodes used, the length of (not-in-shortcodes) text, or maybe just the number of paragraphs…

Now I find other people are having these kinds of nasty problems.

It seems pretty arbitrary to me, though I hazard a guess that it has something to do with the way that shortcodes are processed internally (and or the regex library that is used to implement it).

Whatever the cause it, it sucks pretty hard.

-spxl

I only manage to get “not logged in” for the management page(s), even with the new Version 0.4.7. :o(

I’m thinking this is due to my wp-plugins folder actually being a symbolic link to another WordPress installation’s wp-plugins folder, and hence the wrong wp-load.php and/or wp-config.php is being accessed in ajaxSetup.php … it’s all a bit obscure!

[Edit: changed to the full path and now cooking with gas!]